AirPair

AirPair launched in March 2013, with founder Jonathon Kresner, who hails from Australia, working full-time, and it soon hired three other part-time developers to work alongside him.{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/airpair-connects-startups-with-expert-developers-to-get-help-with-code-via-online-sessions/|title = Airpair Connects Startups With Expert Developers To Get Help With Code Via Online Sessions|date = March 4, 2013|accessdate = January 16, 2015|work = TechCrunch|last = Perez|first = Sarah}} Kresner had previously founded two other startups: Preparty, a social invitation and event-booking service based in Australia, and ClimbFind, an online rock-climbing community that reached a million users. Kresner was inspired to work on AirPair because he saw the need for outside expert assistance with programming issues arise regularly at these startups.

In November 2013, founder Kresner describes the company's initial success at bootstrapping itself to "Ramen profitability" in a blog post.{{cite web|url = http://hackerpreneurialism.com/post/67498528332/how-we-bootstrapped-airpair-to-ramen-profitability|title = How We Bootstrapped AirPair to Ramen Profitability|last = Kresner|first = Jonathon|date = November 19, 2013|accessdate = January 16, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150304163916/http://hackerpreneurialism.com/post/67498528332/how-we-bootstrapped-airpair-to-ramen-profitability|archive-date = March 4, 2015|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}} In December 2013, AirPair was accepted into the Winter 2014 Y Combinator batch.{{cite web|url=http://www.afr.com/p/entrepreneurs/aussie_entrepreneur_airpair_accepted_QTEAFt89EZn5MgONZkak2O|title = Aussie entrepreneur's AirPair accepted into Y Combinator|date = December 2, 2013|accessdate = January 16, 2015|publisher = Financial Review (Australia)|last = Bailey|first = Michael}}{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/04/trouble-with-your-code-airpair-connects-you-live-with-expert-programmers/|title = Trouble With Your Code? AirPair Connects You Live With Expert Programmers|last = Kumparak|first = Greg|date = February 4, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015}}

In March 2014, AirPair announced it would launch partnerships with Stripe, Twilio, and other companies that had their own application programming interfaces, allowing developers having trouble with the APIs to seek help over AirPair from experts on the APIs.{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/03/airpair-api-partnerships/|title = AirPair Expands Its Live Programming Assistance By Partnering With Stripe, Twilio, And Others|date = March 3, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|work = TechCrunch|last = Ha|first = Anthony}}{{cite web|url=https://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/03/03/airpairs-network-pay-per-hour-api-experts-want-make-next-integration-doddle/|title = AirPair's network of pay-per-hour API experts want to make your next integration a doddle|date = March 3, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|publisher = The Next Web}}

AirPair presented at the Y Combinator Winter 2014 Demo Day on March 25, 2014,{{cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/yc-w14-batch-1/|title = Y Combinator Winter 2014, Batch 1: Meet CareMessage, Boostable, BatteryOS, And More|last1 = Lawler|first1 = Ryan|last2 = Wilhelm|first2 = Alex|last3 = Constine|first3 = Josh|date = March 25, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|work = TechCrunch}} and successfully raised over $1 million within the next 48 hours.{{cite magazine|url = http://www.brw.com.au/p/entrepreneurs/aussie_airpair_raises_founder_after_nP9CKJTSg6JLrYhxEKqmyK|title = Aussie's AirPair raises $1m-plus after Y Combinator demo day, including from Quora co-founder|last = Bailey|first = Michael|magazine = Business Review Weekly|date = April 10, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150107030041/http://www.brw.com.au/p/entrepreneurs/aussie_airpair_raises_founder_after_nP9CKJTSg6JLrYhxEKqmyK|archive-date = January 7, 2015|url-status = dead}}

A review of AirPair by Will Lam stressed that because payment was based on time rather than results, it was important to use it for clearly thought-out questions where one had high confidence that the session would help.{{cite web|url=http://www.quantifire.net/blog/first-impressions-airpair-rails-n00b/|title = Review of Airpair: First impressions from a Rails newbie|last = Lam|first = Will|date = February 10, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|publisher = Quantifire}}

Dennis Beatty, who met AirPair founder Jonathon Kresner in March 2014, wrote in April 2014 a glowing review of AirPair's vision of connecting people and its business success.{{cite web|url = http://beehivestartups.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-airpair-founder-jonathon-kresner-while-san-francisco/|title = What I Learned From AirPair Founder Jonathon Kresner While in San Francisco. The journey of a thousand miles continues with one more step.|last = Beatty|first = Dennis|date = April 5, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|archive-date = December 31, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141231065858/http://beehivestartups.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-airpair-founder-jonathon-kresner-while-san-francisco/|url-status = dead}}

AirPair has been compared with other peer-to-peer coding help sites such as Codementor and HackHands.{{cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2014/03/24/one-on-one-programming-help-site-codementor-raises-600000/|date = March 24, 2014|accessdate = January 16, 2015|title = One-On-One Programming Help Site Codementor Raises $600,000|last = Shu|first = Catherine}}

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